Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-05
THE NEW MANS IBID"


dents-Religious Organization.
We first visit the rooms of all our nc
quaintances, and inform them of the fact
that our new man has Ibid, and that
he must be initiated into the mysteries of
dyke This project meets with gen
eral acceptance, and preparations are
forthwith begug for this time honored and
purely local institution. Dyke is said TO
be derived from a Greek verb signifying
to sshow," to "point out''-I suppose
from the action of pointing with the right
hand at the victim as you scream, "Dykew
The preparations are made by procur-
ing all the old horns, some of them six,
eight and ten feet long, that we can lay
our hands on; all the coal scuttles, not in
actual use, for drums; and old clothes,
wrapped around sticks and saturated with
oil, for torches. With this parapher-
MALTA we collect around the door of our
innocent friend, and, making the rest
conceal themselves behind pillars, trees
and everything else available, / go into
his room and watch him dress; talking all
the time in the most uneXcited way possi-
BILE. At last he is ready / stay behind
to blow out the lamp as he goes out Of the
door | hear the words, ''Here he is,
boysw "All right" and hurried 'Why,
what's the matter? What are you going
to odoy' His questions are unheeded, and,
after momentary halt to give the fifty
torch bcorers time to apply a match to the
combustible material on the ends of their
poles, the prolonged shout, "Dyke! dykel
dyllel'' is heard echoing and re-echoing up
and down the arcades, rousing all stu
dents especially the new ones, from their
studies. The cry spreads like wildfire,
and is tGSlen up from room to room,
house to house, range to range,
until the venerable old walls shake
with the din Amid the shouts, the
blowing of the immense horns, and the
eating of tin pans, the victim, in the
! kds of his quasi friends and by the
6 Eing light of torches, now increased to
/ rhaps 100, is rushed around the lawn,
alpund the ranges, and then up the middle
ofJthe campus, and is finally placed upon
the topmcst step, leading to the rotunda
perch, some fifteen or twenty feet above
the sea of upturned faces, which seems to
be SO cruelty enjoying themselves at his
expense.
MAKING A SPEECH.
Some kind friend behind him takes off
his hat for him, another catches him back
of the neck and compels him to make
bow. The cries of "Speechl speechr'
make the welbin ring and the windows in
the old dome rattle. If he is a wise young
man, he will keep silent; if not, he will
attempt to speak; but he will never get
further than the first word, to be deafened
by the applause In some ten minutes he
is considered to have had enough. The
audience take him down, put on his hat,
and rush him down the middle Of the
lawn at full speed When the house at
which the entertainment is given is
reached, the 200 men Gor ! have fire.
quently seen that many engaged in a
dyke form a double line extending fifty
or seyenty-five yards, and the luckless
victim is rushed through by two captors,
right up into the house, little pitied by,
but affording much amusement to, the
girls assembled at the windows.
But when, despite Scylla and
Charybdis, he has safely reached
his haven, they make up for their heart
lessness by being doubly sweet to him;
and as he wends his way homeward, some
where about the witchjng hour of 12, he
declares that for such pleasure he would
suffer it all again.
He soon makes the acquaintance of most
of the young ladies in the neighborhood,
if he is "calicost' (which implies u
greater lover of the fair sex than of his
studies), and pursues their acquaintance,
or not, as his own sweet will may die
tate.
A german club is generally formed in
the early part of the year, and gives
q german about once month,
though last year it gave eighteen This
club is composed of the dancing girls as
we'll as young men; the latter have to
sign a pledge not to drink drop of any
kind of liquor from II o'clock of the day Of
the german until II O'Clock the next day.
This prevents any disorderly conduct, and
makes the germans much less objectiona-
bic than formerly to the quiet citizens,
who were liable to be disturbed at all
hours by the uproarious germanites after
the dancing was over.
SOCIETY OF THE LADIES.
Our young friend, if fond of dancing,
joins, and goes in for an amusement in
which only the dancing girls engage. If,
however hc Is not discinla of frerpSi-